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Circus Acrobats
Joanna Zakrzewska-Cholewa
Sculpture - 49 x 15 x 6 cm Sculpture - 19.3 x 5.9 x 2.4 inch
$1,809
Long-lived masterpiece
Karen Axikyan
Sculpture - 22 x 29 x 15 cm Sculpture - 8.7 x 11.4 x 5.9 inch
$1,200
Passeur de brise
Pascal Billard
Sculpture - 78 x 45 x 30 cm Sculpture - 30.7 x 17.7 x 11.8 inch
$1,675
Visage (A.R. 611)
Pablo Picasso
Sculpture - 30.5 x 8.5 x 8.5 cm Sculpture - 12 x 3.3 x 3.3 inch
$22,406
La demoiselle du vent
Patricia Grangier
Sculpture - 52 x 20 x 22 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 7.9 x 8.7 inch
$3,205
Alter Ego Oscar Silver
Alessandro Piano
Sculpture - 25 x 16 x 8 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 6.3 x 3.1 inch
$566
Caleidoscopio
Amancio Gonzalez
Sculpture - 41 x 30 x 20 cm Sculpture - 16.1 x 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$4,866
Fragment Escultòric Petit Nº 9
Esteve Prat Paz
Sculpture - 15 x 30 x 20 cm Sculpture - 5.9 x 11.8 x 7.9 inch
$339
Guitare Eddie Cokran
Robert Combas
Sculpture - 97 x 34 x 2 cm Sculpture - 38.2 x 13.4 x 0.8 inch
$14,145
Elf and the dancing bear
Markus Lüpertz
Sculpture - 45 x 20 x 20 cm Sculpture - 17.7 x 7.9 x 7.9 inch
$21,501
Transition - visage II
Samuel Yal
Sculpture - 25 x 20 x 8 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 7.9 x 3.1 inch
$2,037
The laughing horse
Lieven D'Haese
Sculpture - 52 x 44 x 21 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 17.3 x 8.3 inch
$8,487
La nena 50 mandarine
Idan Zareski
Sculpture - 42 x 32 x 50 cm Sculpture - 16.5 x 12.6 x 19.7 inch
$8,714
Healing at the Mangrove Forest
Joshua Limon Palisoc
Sculpture - 52 x 27 x 16 cm Sculpture - 20.5 x 10.6 x 6.3 inch
$1,867
La pieuvre boule - série sculpture animal marin
Naïg Oulhen dite AbeRaku
Sculpture - 25 x 34 x 35 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 13.4 x 13.8 inch
$2,122
Subway Series NYC Limited Edition n°15
Orus
Sculpture - 40 x 35 x 30 cm Sculpture - 15.7 x 13.8 x 11.8 inch
$2,263
Is Beating Me From the Inside, and You Wanted Something.
Alex Hodge
Sculpture - 14 x 15.2 x 7.6 cm Sculpture - 5.5 x 6 x 3 inch
$400
La danseuse au tutu rouge
Yannick Le Bloas
Sculpture - 28 x 10.5 x 8 cm Sculpture - 11 x 4.1 x 3.1 inch
$509
Reader, no. II/VIII
Jacek Cholewa
Sculpture - 11.8 x 16 x 15 cm Sculpture - 4.6 x 6.3 x 5.9 inch
$1,573
Yellow Rabbit-large size
Viktor Zuk
Sculpture - 46 x 33 x 14 cm Sculpture - 18.1 x 13 x 5.5 inch
$622
Montagne Yogi 120-21
Philippe Buil
Sculpture - 21 x 18 x 12 cm Sculpture - 8.3 x 7.1 x 4.7 inch
$1,075
Tête de buffle N° 6/8
Isabelle Carabantes
Sculpture - 59 x 44 x 43 cm Sculpture - 23.2 x 17.3 x 16.9 inch
$14,711
Duquesa de Alba. Sculpture.
Lluís Llongueras
Sculpture - 27 x 17 x 16 cm Sculpture - 10.6 x 6.7 x 6.3 inch
$2,037
La Musa della musica
Giorgio de Chirico
Sculpture - 24 x 5.8 x 5.8 cm Sculpture - 9.4 x 2.3 x 2.3 inch
$7,921
Le desespéré
Fabienne Bonneau (Fablues)
Sculpture - 30 x 34 x 29 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 13.4 x 11.4 inch
$905
Renard
Jean-François Gambino
Sculpture - 25.5 x 31 x 36 cm Sculpture - 10 x 12.2 x 14.2 inch
$16,748
Emerging tree
Konstantinos Tsachas
Sculpture - 26 x 18 x 44 cm Sculpture - 10.2 x 7.1 x 17.3 inch
$5,545
Ardentelle
Sylviane Le Boulc'h
Sculpture - 140 x 130 x 150 cm Sculpture - 55.1 x 51.2 x 59.1 inch
$88,267
Black Shaman - Kara?aman
Aslan Selcuk Arik
Sculpture - 144 x 55 x 40 cm Sculpture - 56.7 x 21.7 x 15.7 inch
$9,053
Teddy hologramme, EA
Marc Boffin
Sculpture - 17 x 13 x 16 cm Sculpture - 6.7 x 5.1 x 6.3 inch
$1,120
T-Rex Cyborg Dinosaur Figure Silver
Hajime Sorayama
Sculpture - 23 x 65 x 15 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 25.6 x 5.9 inch
$4,550
Dupli Color Negro Ford E/luxe
Rorro Berjano
Sculpture - 23 x 9 x 9 cm Sculpture - 9.1 x 3.5 x 3.5 inch
$901
Playmobil Givenchy
Guillaume & Anthony
Sculpture - 60 x 30 x 12 cm Sculpture - 23.6 x 11.8 x 4.7 inch
$2,037
Alain Montanguon, Le Repos
Alain Montanguon
Sculpture - 20 x 43 x 20 cm Sculpture - 7.9 x 16.9 x 7.9 inch
$2,263
O'clock Multi Cadran
François Bel
Sculpture - 45.5 x 10 x 10 cm Sculpture - 17.9 x 3.9 x 3.9 inch
$9,619
Moulage brutaliste en béton des choux de Créteil par le studio Spaceplay et la galerie 54 Dunkerque.
Spaceplay Spaceplay
Sculpture - 9 x 3 x 3 cm Sculpture - 3.5 x 1.2 x 1.2 inch
$91
Chantilly
George Panossian
Sculpture - 200 x 179 x 153 cm Sculpture - 78.7 x 70.5 x 60.2 inch
$35,646
La Belle Endormine
Irakli Nasidze
Sculpture - 14 x 32 x 11 cm Sculpture - 5.5 x 12.6 x 4.3 inch
$5,205
Tanto, Stava già male
Nicola Facchini
Sculpture - 25 x 30 x 32 cm Sculpture - 9.8 x 11.8 x 12.6 inch
$3,169
Couple cœur à la main sur socle
Carl Jaunay
Sculpture - 29 x 8 x 9 cm Sculpture - 11.4 x 3.1 x 3.5 inch
$1,120
Little lion blue
Cyril Maccioni
Sculpture - 30 x 7 x 4.5 cm Sculpture - 11.8 x 2.8 x 1.8 inch
$3,395
Orí Yucateca, Figurative Sculpture
José Ignacio Suarez Solis
Sculpture - 190 x 39.9 x 39.9 cm Sculpture - 74.8 x 15.7 x 15.7 inch
$20,000
Contemporary Milpa
Rosalía Banet
Sculpture - 32 x 32 x 5 cm Sculpture - 12.6 x 12.6 x 2 inch
$14,000
Minnie Mello Klein Purple
Anna Kara
Sculpture - 78 x 22 x 27 cm Sculpture - 30.7 x 8.7 x 10.6 inch
$8,487
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Over 200,000 pieces. That's the number of contemporary artworks and design objects currently available on Artsper. Every day, new artists and galleries from all over the world join us and trust us to showcase their work. On Artsper, all mediums have a place of choice: painting, drawing, photography, editions and sculpture.
The generic term "contemporary art" refers to all works produced in the recent period, that is to say between the end of the 20th and the beginning of the 21st centuries. However, there is not only one type of contemporary art. It can cover as many forms as there are artists, if not more. Contemporary art, while taking into account the individualities and the cultural specificities, takes life at the world level, in a globalized society and constantly in movement. Thus, the materials used, the processes of creation and the subjects treated by the contemporary art works often reflect these interconnections. But one constant remains, artists perpetually question the established artistic order.
Even if they are often confused, there are many differences between modern and contemporary art, notably the idea that contemporary art works are more conceptual and privilege the creative idea to the support used.
Nevertheless, the distinction between these two movements can also be purely temporal. Any work realized after 1945 can be called "contemporary". At the beginning of the 20th century, the movements followed one another according to the revolutionary reflections of the great masters of Surrealism (Salvador Dalí, René Magritte), Cubism (Pablo Picasso, Fernand Léger) and Dadaism (Marcel Duchamp). From the 1950s and 1960s, artists pushed the reflection on abstraction even further. This is the birth of minimalist art as well as conceptual art. In opposition to the abstract expressionists such as Joan Mitchell, Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock, the leaders of these movements are notably Frank Stella and Sol Lewitt.
Pop art is one of the first artistic movements to emerge from contemporary art. It was the work of a whole generation caught up in the whirlwind of consumer society. Pop art uses new technologies and very bright colors to portray (sometimes ironically) this globalized world in transition. The precursors of this pictorial technique are Roy Lichtenstein and Andy Warhol, whose modern paintings represent icons of the time such as Marilyn Monroe or Elizabeth Taylor.
Born in the 1960s in Philadelphia, street art became popular in the 1980s. Illegal and controversial at first, it now occupies a major place in modern art museums, galleries and private collections. Paintings, stencil drawings, collages, sculpture, tags, graffiti... On Artsper, discover original contemporary artworks as well as prints by the greatest street artists: Shepard Fairey (Obey), JonOne, Aiko, Miss.Tic, Jef Aérosol and many others. But our catalog also highlights young stars and talents of the emerging scene, such as Death NYC or Jérôme Mesnager.
Today, contemporary art exists in many forms, more or less inspired by the movements that have shaped modern history. The beginning of the 21st century is marked by a multidisciplinary creation, an interest for creation coming from the four corners of the world, and the emergence of markets on different continents. Contemporary artworks also denote a meteoric growth in digital art, as evidenced by the recent boom in NFTs and AI (artificial intelligence)-generated art. As with all art forms, we see a globalized interest in innovative and disruptive contemporary artworks as much as in work that aims to revive the more traditional forms of fine art.
Whether you're a budding collector or a seasoned buyer, a home decorator or an art history buff, now is the time to express your personality by exploring the collections of our 1,800 partner galleries, which are constantly being updated with new works of contemporary art. Your perfect piece is waiting for you, now it's up to you to find it!